So, yesterday (Sunday) I had a phone call, it was from the on call dev. There was a problem with some code I’ve written. Since midnight on the 31st August these crons that run every hour were erroring. Something about September reporting as October… weird.
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So, I’ve been trying my best recently to keep up to date with “the community” and it’s often… how do I put this; NUTS! I’m subscribe to the PHP internals mailing list, and though it is very interesting and I love knowing what’s going on, these guys can get rude. To me, it seems that PHP is at a cross roads and some REALLY big decisions are needing to be made.
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The Problem

I was doing a little bit of testing on a web app earlier today and I wanted to be able to switch my IP easily. I’d never used a web proxy before, I’ve never had the need to.
First I found some free proxy listings on sites like HIDE MY ASS, these give you an IP address and port to connect to from your browser. This did the trick but I felt a little vulnerable going through some random proxy. This wasn’t the solution for me.
More# November 28, 2013